chicken soup for the stomach
Take the chicken breasts that have been in the freezer lo these many months, and defrost them.
Chop up an onion, a carrot and half a punnet of mushrooms. Throw them into the big pot with a little bit of butter. Wash some baby spinach and throw that in as well. Add the half-bottle of Pol Roger left over from Claire’s party. Add a carton of organic chicken broth.
Cook.
Slice the chicken breasts and fry them in the skillet with red chili flakes, bay leaves, rosemary and thyme. Throw them into the big pot.
Cook.
Turn everything off and go to a party.
Come back and heat it all up again. Eat. Say to toddler: “Wow, this is amazing soup.” Give soupy vegetables to toddler. Watch toddler devour same with terrifying appetite, even after hefty servings of cereal and cheese. Sing, with toddler, an impromptu Song Of Soup:
Yay!
Yay!
Yay!
Yip!
Despite plan to eke said soup out for a few days, share nearly all of it with toddler. Wonder if it’s possible to justify buying Pol Roger just for use in chicken soup, and conclude, reluctantly, not.
I am the Elizabeth David of Eugenia Avenue.
